The Difference Between Secrets and Lies – Can the White House Even Understand the Difference?

The Difference Between Secrets and Lies – Can the White House Even Understand the Difference?

Recent developments in Washington relating to Ukraine and the Middle East remind me that there is a big difference between maintaining secrecy when a situation warrants it and lying over issues where there is no compelling reason to do so beyond political expediency. Having spent more than twenty years in American intelligence agencies where secrecy…

CIA, NED: Georgia and Colour Revolutions: “Oink, Oink, Squeal like a Pig!”

CIA, NED: Georgia and Colour Revolutions: “Oink, Oink, Squeal like a Pig!”

Spring is finally here, and it has been a very mild winter for Europe.  However, the month of March can be very unpredictable, and not only in terms of the weather. The National Endowment for Democracy, NED, CIA, is hard at work in Moldova and Georgia, and coming soon to Turkey, if it doesn’t just…

Canada Has Blood on Its Hands: Ottawa’s Role in the Syria War Exposed

Canada Has Blood on Its Hands: Ottawa’s Role in the Syria War Exposed

While most Canadians would prefer to think of themselves as free of constraint from U.S. foreign policy, still history will show that most often Canada’s foreign policy is a mirror image of the U.S. Canada has blood on its hands in Syria. Canadian intelligence would have provided its government with the facts concerning the Syrian…

America the Feckless

America the Feckless

One would think that the United States military staging an unprovoked “plausibly deniable” covert attack on a nation with which it is not at war would be at least considered newsworthy. That the attack did grave damage to a country with which the US is closely allied would seem to make the aggression even more…